Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
10 best books like Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (Ayesha Siddiqa): Train to Pakistan, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, In the Line of Fire, On China, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, The Idea of Pakistan, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining...
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| Author | John Perkins |
| ISBN | 0452287081 |
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations
With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup,...
| Author | Pervez Musharraf |
| ISBN | 0743283449 |
According to "Time" magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1594202710 |
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past...
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost...
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0670019704 |
Even more than a decade after its publication Descent Into Chaos is a must read for anyone interested in ongoing events in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the central Asian “stans” that make up one of the most politically volatile areas on earth. Rashid is both a journalist and a participant, having been...
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0300089023 |
Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy, and especially fear in both...
| Author | Stephen Philip Cohen |
Stephen Cohen updates his critically acclaimed book with a discerning view of significant recent events in the region, particularly the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and its after affects. The quake killed over 70,000 people and left another 3 million homeless in one of the most remote, inhospitable...
| Author | Tariq Ali |
| ISBN | 1416561013 |
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence....
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
| Author | Husain Haqqani |
| ISBN | 0870032143 |
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence...
| Author | Stanley Wolpert |
| ISBN | 0195678591 |
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” Stanley Wolpert
These are the opening lines of the preface of Stanley Wolpert’s book,...
The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
In God we trust, the rest we monitor . . .
A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, deconstructs the shadowy world of spies, from the Cold War era to the age of global jihad, from surveillance states to psy-war and cyberwarfare, from gathering information...
The Kaoboys & R&AW: Down Memory Lane
This book deals largely with those aspects of the working of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), of which the author had personal knowledge while serving in the organization for 26 years. The book traverses through India’s contemporary history—most importantly the 1971 war; insurgency...
Pakistan: A Personal History
| Author | Imran Khan |
| ISBN | 0593067746 |
Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling elite hungry for money and power, Pakistan now stands alone as the only Islamic country with a nuclear bomb, yet it is unable to protect its people from the carnage of regular bombings...
| Author | Anatol Lieven |
| ISBN | 1610390210 |
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their...
From Kargil to the Coup: Events that Shook Pakistan
Ever since the Kargil war of 1999 between then newly nuclearized India and Pakistan, there has been endless speculation about the precise motivations, planning and execution of the operation. In her long-awaited study of Kargil, Nasim Zehra combines hitherto unknown information garnered from...
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
| Author | Lesley Hazleton |
| ISBN | 0385523939 |
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
| Author | Ayesha Jalal |
| ISBN | 0521458501 |
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman...
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence
| Author | Jaswant Singh |
| ISBN | 8129113783 |
The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible - Jinnah? The Congress...
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
| Author | Husain Haqqani |
| ISBN | 1610393171 |
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America—to Pakistani eyes—has been...
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics
| Author | Andrew Small |
| ISBN | 0190210753 |
The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military...
Inside the Pakistan Army: A Woman's Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror
| Author | Carey Schofield |
| ISBN | 1906447020 |
Whose side is Pakistan’s military really on? Leaked intelligence records suggest the suspicion of collusion with the Taliban. Controversy surrounds the awarding of an extension to the tenure of Pakistan’s army chief, General Kayani—target of accusations that he has links with factions...
JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
| Author | Bruce Riedel |
| ISBN | 0815726996 |
Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights over Kennedy’s forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But the same week the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United...
Вся кремлевская рать: Краткая история современной России
Эта книга рассказывает об истории России на всем протяжении правления Владимира Путина, с 2000 по 2015 год. В основу книги легли документы, открытые источники...
Blood and fire have often blighted Afghanistan, the three Anglo-Afghan wars being among the
bloodiest and the cruelest in its history. But Britain’s partitioning of Afghanistan will rank as
the greatest crime of the nineteenth century. That arbitrary line which Mortimer Durand drew
in...
The Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a compilation of lectures delivered by Muhammad Iqbal on Islamic philosophy and published in 1930. These lectures were delivered by Iqbal in Madras, Hyderabad, and Aligarh. The last chapter, "Is Religion Possible?", was added to the book from the...
The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan
| Author | K.K. Aziz |
| ISBN | 9693523555 |
In this volume, Aziz sets out to correct the injustice that has been committed in Pakistan ever since its creation, and still continues. The history text books in the country have been woefully distorted for political ends. In this book, he has critiqued and provided the corrections for 66 text books...
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
| Author | Ayesha Jalal |
| ISBN | 0674052897 |
Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
| Author | Steve Coll |
| ISBN | 1594201641 |
The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the family...
| Author | Arthur Cheney Train |
Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. In 1919, he created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wiley old lawyer who supported the common...
